Saturday, August 01, 2015

Doris
Ranzman had followed the expert advice, planning ahead in case she
wound up unable to care for herself one day. But when a nursing-home
bill tops $14,000 a month, the best-laid plans get tossed aside.

On
June 28, 1914, a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip
killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo,Bosnia. Taking place against a
backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balkans, the assassination set
off a chain of events that would lead to the start of World War I
barely one month later.

Three
University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled
in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone
magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the
article's author Wednesday, court records show.

Athletes
competing in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and
boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk
becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an
Associated Press investigation has found.

The
U.S. Navy will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf this
fall for the first time in years, President Obama's nominee to be the
Navy's top officer told Capitol Hill lawmakers
Thursday.
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Court
dismisses lawsuit seeking person hood for 2 N.Y. chimps

Two
chimpanzees will not be freed from a New York state university where
they're used in locomotion studies after a court decision Thursday
dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to afford them legal personhood
rights.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Republicans
in the Senate are leading efforts to pass legislation that would
allow the states to impose a sales tax on online transactions. Sen.
Mike Enzi (R-WY) has proposed the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA),
which would allow states to "collect and remit sales and use
taxes with respect to remote sales.”

Conservatives
gathered on Capitol Hill on Thursday to lay claim to the issue of
reforming the United States criminal system, including ending the
minimum mandatory sentencing laws that were passed by the Democrat
majority in Congress three decades ago.

Conservative
groups offer alternative to new wave of political correctness on
campuses

A
new wave of progressivism and political correctness in U.S. schools
-- highlighted by “trigger warnings” and “safe zones” -- has
conservative groups fighting back on campuses across the country,
saying “students need to get both sides of the story.”

This
week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new
effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos,
even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to
destroy humanity.

Guidelines
for LGBT Refugee Resettlement Include ‘LGBT-Affirming Places of
Worship’

The Obama administration has introduced homosexual rights
policies across federal agencies, including at the Health and Human
Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement website, which links to a
guide that rates placement providers and communities on LGBT-friendly
services, including having “culturally competent mental health
providers” and “LGBT-affirming places of worship.”

An
Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that will rid the Capitol grounds of a
religious monument has simultaneously scuttled the plans of a group
advocating for a Satanic statue there, and they now hope to enshrine
the deity outside the Arkansas Statehouse.

The
state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even
if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals
court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgments on
whether religious believers can opt out of providing
services.

Republicans
in the Senate are leading efforts to pass legislation that would
allow the states to impose a sales tax on online transactions. Sen.
Mike Enzi (R-WY) has proposed the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA),
which would allow states to "collect and remit sales and use
taxes with respect to remote sales.”

Conservatives
gathered on Capitol Hill on Thursday to lay claim to the issue of
reforming the United States criminal system, including ending the
minimum mandatory sentencing laws that were passed by the Democrat
majority in Congress three decades ago.

Conservative
groups offer alternative to new wave of political correctness on
campuses

A
new wave of progressivism and political correctness in U.S. schools
-- highlighted by “trigger warnings” and “safe zones” -- has
conservative groups fighting back on campuses across the country,
saying “students need to get both sides of the story.”

This
week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new
effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos,
even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to
destroy humanity.

Guidelines
for LGBT Refugee Resettlement Include ‘LGBT-Affirming Places of
Worship’

The Obama administration has introduced homosexual rights
policies across federal agencies, including at the Health and Human
Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement website, which links to a
guide that rates placement providers and communities on LGBT-friendly
services, including having “culturally competent mental health
providers” and “LGBT-affirming places of worship.”

An
Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that will rid the Capitol grounds of a
religious monument has simultaneously scuttled the plans of a group
advocating for a Satanic statue there, and they now hope to enshrine
the deity outside the Arkansas Statehouse.

The
state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even
if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals
court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgments on
whether religious believers can opt out of providing
services.

Friday, July 24, 2015

You
would expect that when NASA asks you to be the first man to walk on
the Moon that they would consider the possibility of things going
wrong. Well for Neil Armstrong he couldn’t afford the life
insurance policy for an astronaut. However, along with Michael
Collins and Buzz Aldrin he wasn’t alone.

The
Amazon rainforest, often thought to have been pristine wilderness
before the modern era, was once domesticated, and was reclaimed by
the wild only in recent centuries, research increasingly suggests.

In
reaction to a NYC bill, Uber has done something to push back in a way
that is both unique and hilarious. The bill seeks to limit the amount
of new drivers transportation companies can hire and, thus, severely
limit the growth of alternative transport businesses such as Uber.

Residents sue Seattle saying new trash rules violate privacy
Environmental goals
about garbage in this and other like-minded cities increasingly come
down to three words: Throw less away. So Seattle residents are given
different bins to put out on the curb — one for yard and food
waste, another for recycling — and are encouraged to use
ever-tinier cans for the stuff that really is
trash.
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Monday, July 20, 2015

Despite the ongoing
flood of illegal aliens pouring across the Mexican border and the
alarming increase in the importation of Muslim refugees into the
U.S., the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department
are focusing illegal immigration enforcement efforts on Asian
restaurants in State College, Pennsylvania, the home of Penn State
University.

Donald Trump on Sunday
declined to apologize for his comments about war veteran and Arizona
GOP Sen. John McCain, suggesting the backlash is being fueled by
fellow Republican presidential candidates trailing him in the polls.

The top editor and
publisher of the French satirical weekly said his publication would
no longer draw cartoons of the Muslim prophet, telling German
magazine “Stern” that he did not want to believe his organization
“was possessed by Islam.”

Greece's cash crisis
has disrupted all aspects of daily life — death included.

Greek funeral homes are
struggling to cope with banking restrictions that limit customers to
taking out only 60 euros ($65) a day in cash. Even a modest funeral
service in Greece costs more than 15 times that, in a country that
traditionally carries out funerals shortly after death and pays for
them almost entirely in cash.

Earlier this week, the
Center for Medical Progress has released a video of Planned
Parenthood’s top doctor, Deborah Nucatola, discussing their
negotiations with a business called Stem Express that purchases
aborted babies’ body parts for experimentation.

Last week, Rep. Lois
Capps (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would remove the words
“husband” and “wife” from the language used in federal law –
a move that had drawn ire from faith leaders and family advocacy
groups that see this legislation as expected fallout from the U.S.
Supreme Court’s ruling in June that same-sex couples have a
constitutional right to marry.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Obamacare required
Americans to turn over their health records to the government, Common
Core forces them to turn over their children’s education records
and smart meters installed on their homes reveal real-time water and
energy usage to government-regulated utilities.

Goosed into action by
an angry federal judge, federal immigration authorities will go
door-to-door demanding illegal immigrants return the three-year
amnesty approvals the Obama administration issued to them in defiance
of a court order.

According to the 2010
U.S. Census, Kansas City, Kansas, was 52 percent white.

But in a speech before
the La Raza National Affiliates Luncheon earlier this week in Kansas
City, Mayor Mark Holland boasted that only five years later his
city’s white population has been reduced to 40 percent.

Using materials
prepared by inmates in Hungarian prisons, 900 soldiers will build a
fence along Hungary's border with Serbia by December to stem the
torrent of migrants, officials said Thursday — a project critics
are comparing to Communist-era barriers like the Berlin Wall.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
said that “Indiana will not comply” with the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed regulations that would for the
first time limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power
plants.

The results of a
lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the North
Carolina NAACP and the League of Women Voters against the State of
North Carolina will determine whether the state’s 2013 voting law
discriminates against minorities.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Man who entered US illegally arrested in Michigan on kidnapping, sexual assault charges
An illegal Mexican immigrant allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from her Florida home last week and sexually abused her before police located the pair in Michigan, Fox 28 reported.
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It's showtime for Pluto; prepare to be amazed by NASA flyby
Pluto, reveal thyself, and Earthlings, enjoy the show. On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory.
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At UN Rights Council, Don’t Use the Word ‘Genocidal’ in Reference to Palestinian Terrorists
The president of the UN Human Rights Council took issue this week with the use by a non-governmental organization representative of the term “genocidal killers” to describe Palestinian terrorists, but Venezuela’s representative was not reprimanded from the chair when he called Israel’s offensive against Hamas last year a “genocidal attack.”
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UNESCO Backs Muslim Narrative on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
A key committee of the United Nations cultural agency adopted a resolution this week whose language implicitly endorses the legend underpinning Islam’s claim to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount -- the assertion that Mohammed tied his winged steed there while en route from Mecca to heaven.
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Citizen Chases Down, Shoots, Captures Bank Robber
A Pennsylvania gun owner was at the right place at the right time this morning, and helped put a bad guy in jail. A suspect in a Hatboro bank robbery was chased down and shot by a witness before being taken into custody Wednesday morning, police said.
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Chicago Gun Control Activists File Harassment Lawsuit Against Neighboring Towns
A coalition of gun control supporters in Chicago have filed a lawsuit against the surrounding communities of Lyons, Riverdale, and Lincolnwood for not infringing deeply enough on the rights of citizens who want to purchase firearms.
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Maine Drops Concealed Carry Permitting Scheme, Joins “Constitutional Carry” States
Maine is the latest state to do away with concealed carry permitting, and will now join five other states that have so-called “constitutional carry” of concealed handguns.
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How American engineers are helping drive robotics innovation
Last month, robotics experts from around the world travelled to Pomona, California to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a contest where semi-autonomous humanoid robots have to perform various obstacles, such as driving vehicles, cutting holes with power tools, and opening car doors, all without falling down. While these are everyday feats we humans take for granted, programming a robot to accomplish these things is apparently no walk in the park.
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